Given the unwillingness of management in general to look past the next lunch hour, is there any market for a school that takes commercial pilots only and produces a package that will make up for lack of hours with decent training?
We have to make up for this lack of experience somehow, and make it palatable to the insurance companies who don't seem to appreciate that hours are not the only yardstick, although I appreciate they have to have something tangible.
I am concerned that many companies are going to go bust because there will be no pilots available to suit customer requirements, which was what was happening in the UK fixed wing world about ten years ago.
I'm thinking of a residential school, with a CPL(H) as a minimum qualification, and a course that produced someone oriented to customer requirements, covering survival, longlining, mountain, etc.
The academic side could be aligned to college credits, which is where the credibiility would come in.
Any thoughts?
Phil
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[This message has been edited by paco (edited 21 May 2001).]